January 27, 2010

I've spent a total of nine hours today researching adoption agencies, reading forums, checking out different groups, contacting agencies, contacting people that have worked with these agencies, and btw i'm still in my pajamas.

I was supposed to be getting ready for my trip back to michigan tomorrow. The day is almost over, I should be getting dinner ready, the house is filthy, no laundry done, no packing completed, and i feel as though I'm no further than where I started this morning on the "education" of adoption. Needless to say, this first post is going to be a short one.

Tomorrow I'll begin with a new post filling you in on the past six years of my life with infertility and then on to the decision of adoption and hopefully we'll be caught up soon for a daily or weekly adventure through the world of adoption....

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this blog is for the adopting explorers, my husband, my family, and mostly for myself...

I am starting this blog as a recommendation on coping with the decision to adopt, the end of fertility treatments, the search for the "right" agency, the type of adoption for us, all the darn paperwork, the finance, the creating of your "profile", the waiting, the excitement of being chosen by a birthmother, following the birthmother through her journey of pregnancy, the waiting, the nesting of an adoptive parent, the birth, meeting our little one for the first time, and finally the excitement of being a mother...

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hmmm, well i'm happily married to the most wonderful husband on earth, i'm in my 30's and have struggled with infertility for 6 years, i'm thrilled about one day becoming a mother, and really excited that we have made the decision to adopt. I am not much of writer, but was told journaling your personal experience through this adventure would be therapeutic and so here I am...